[Coco] A few more questions for the Coco brain trust

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------ Original Message ------
From: "Bill Gunshannon via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: "Bill Gunshannon" <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
Sent: 2022-11-24 17:06:50
Subject: [Coco] A few more questions for the Coco brain trust

>It seems like the questions never stop popping into my mind.  :-)
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>2.  Along the same stream.  I have other disk controllers.  Can
>the COCO3 (under Os9, of course) support more than one disk
>controller.  It would be cool to put mt TC^3 in one of the slots
>of the Glenside and have both IDE and SCSI disks.  Doable?
  I have not done this but I would say yes.  They both use SuperDriver by
Cloud-9 docs for this can be found on Cloud9tech.com  I think the 
drivers
are now PD.  The TC^3 and SuperIDE docs are also on Cloud9

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>3. As for the TC^3.  The only document I have is called "TC^3
>SCSI Interface User Manual". On page 8 it mentions looking for
>OS9 driver installation and configuration info in something
>called "SCSI System User Manual" that it says was included
>with the controller.  Actually, mine came with no documentation
>at all and the one manual I have I downloaded from somewhere on
>the net.  Anybody have any info on or a copy of this other
>manual?
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>4. One last one.  I just read the white paper on ROMing OS9 into
>the COCO in place of the BASIC ROMs.  On the COCO3 would it be
>possible to create a cartridge that contained OS9 and loaded it
>into RAM to run thus eliminating the size limit caused by the
>size of the BASIC ROMs?  If this is possible, would it also
>be possible to kick the ROM out afterwards and return to 64M
>RAM mode?
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>And just in case anyone is curious, I also plan to see if it is
>possible to build a ROMable NitrOS9 image for a machine that
>runs a 6809 but has no connection with the COCO at all.  Of
>course, I am planning to do all of this on my OS9 development
>machine.  Yes, I know building this stuff on the COCO will be
>slower than doing it all on a PC but where would the fun be in
>that?  :-)
>
>bill
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